Example sentences of "[be] [adv] about [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick scan through the ‘ for sale ’ pages of U.S. and British magazines indicates that prices for aircraft in the USA are only about sixty per cent of those in the UK . |
| 2 | With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's . |
| 3 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 4 | Lower limb injuries are behind about 60 per cent of our call-outs and tiredness and unfitness are the major causes . |
| 5 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 6 | The gamma dose rate proved to be only about 20 per cent — reasonably typical for clay materials . |
| 7 | The Summer Ale is designed to be light and is only about 3.6 per cent alcohol . |
| 8 | increase for school buildings next year is a good outcome , given that the level of inflation is only about 4 per cent . |
| 9 | For now the geologists ' definition is sufficient : the tectonic Pacific is a body that is only about 70 per cent of the area of the conventionally accepted Ocean , and omits the coasts of all the South American and most of the South-East-Asian countries . |
| 10 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 11 | The manufacturing base , which is already nearing the limits of viability — it is only about 20 per cent . |
| 12 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |
| 13 | If the load is maintained , the crack therefore accelerates rapidly and soon reaches its theoretical calculated speed which is generally about 38 per cent of the speed of sound in the material . |
| 14 | The bank 's liability is generally about 10 per cent of the contract price , but , however it can be higher . |
| 15 | This poorer quality is reflected in their price , which is normally about 30 per cent less . |
| 16 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 18 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 19 | In the USA , income in the largest post-war cohorts is indeed about 15 per cent less than in smaller cohorts ( Easterlin 1980 ) and their scholastic education scores have been lower . |
| 20 | The fund is invested in a range of fixed interest securities , primarily short dated Treasury bills and the rate paid is currently about 5.27 per cent gross . |
| 21 | It is currently about 20 per cent more expensive than peat composts . |
| 22 | At first , registration of births was only about 95 per cent complete . |
| 23 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 24 | Although their population was only about 5 per cent of the total of rural Wales , some districts fared relatively worse than others , particularly in Powys ( Brecknock , Montgomery and Radnor ) and parts of West Wales ( Preseli and south Pembrokeshire ) . |
| 25 | In France , Italy and the USA , the decline was only about 2 per cent . |
| 26 | Its share of ‘ small systems ’ was only about 15 per cent , but due to grow . |
| 27 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 28 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 29 | But underlying growth in profits was probably about 30 per cent . |